About Peter Conners

Peter Conners was born September 11, 1970 in Rochester, New York. He is the author of several collections of poetry and fiction including Of Whiskey and Winter (poetry) and the novella Emily Ate the Wind (novella). He is also editor of PP/FF: An Anthology which was published by Starcherone Books in April 2006. His memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, was published by Da Capo Press in April 2009. His next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, is forthcoming from White Pine Press.

Peter’s poetry, fiction and book reviews appear regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Beloit Fiction Journal. Poems from his collection Of Whiskey & Winter will be included in The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry (2009).

Peter lives with his wife and three children in Rochester, NY. In addition to his writing, he works as an editor and directs marketing for the non-profit literary publisher, BOA Editions. His current projects include a non-fiction book titled, Generation Hallucination: Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and the LSD Revolution, and a series of rock-n-roll novels.

For more about Peter visit www.peterconners.com